Just two weeks before his death, world renowned physicist Stephen Hawking predicted the end of the universe in a study that has now been released.
Hawking, who died last week at the age of 76, was working all the way up until his death, with his final work — titled A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation — being presented less than a month before he died. The physicists final work predicted that the universe would eventually end when everything goes dark because star run out of energy.
But Hawking also theorized in his final work that scientists could find alternate universes using probes on space ships, allowing humans to form an even better understanding of our own universe, what else is out there, and our place in the cosmos.
The physicist’s final work was published alongside his co-author, professor Thomas Hertog, who teaches at KU Leuven University in Belgium.
“He has often been nominated for the Nobel and should have won it. Now he never can,” Mr Hertog told the Sunday Times of his co-author, arguing that Hawking could have won that prize for his work on this final paper.
He “would have won a Nobel Prize,” Mr Hertog said.
Hawking suffered from ALS for most of his life, a debilitating disease that left him in a wheelchair with very little muscular mobility.
That disease left him reliant upon people or technology for virtually every part of his life, including eating, bathing, dressing, and even speaking.
To communicate with others, Hawking used a speech synthesiser that allowed him to speak with a computerised voice that had an American accent.
He was perhaps best known for the publication of his many books, including the landmark title “A Brief History of Time”, which was one of many books he wrote analyzing the mysteries of the universe.
